Senior Open-Source Engineer - Remote AI Task Architect

YO AI Labs; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 83,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

YO AI Labs is seeking a GitHub Contributor - Senior Software Engineer for a remote contractor role. You will design and evaluate challenging software tasks for AI training across languages such as Python, Java, Rust, and C++, testing models via reproducible environments and reference solutions.

Strong open-source experience is essential, with responsibilities including bug fixes, refactoring, performance optimization, and documenting technical decisions for validation of submissions.

Qualifications

• Experience with open-source contributions and strong open-source profiles.
• Proven ability to work across Python, Java, Rust, C++, Go, and/or TypeScript codebases.
• Solid fundamentals in algorithms, data structures, and software engineering.

Responsibilities

• Create expert-level software engineering tasks involving bug fixing, feature implementation, refactoring, and optimization.
• Develop reproducible environments and golden reference solutions for AI evaluation.
• Review and validate technical submissions for quality and accuracy.
• Document technical reasoning, solutions, and code decisions.
• Debug complex systems and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Implement scalable and maintainable features.
• Refactor legacy code and improve performance and reliability.

Skills

Python 3

Java

Rust

C++

TypeScript

Algorithms & Data Structures

Bug Fixing

Feature Implementation

Codebase Refactoring

Performance Optimization

Tools

GitHub/GitLab

Job description

YO AI Labs is seeking a GitHub Contributor - Senior Software Engineer for a remote contractor role. You will design and evaluate challenging software tasks for AI training across languages such as Python, Java, Rust, and C++, testing models via reproducible environments and reference solutions.

Strong open-source experience is essential, with responsibilities including bug fixes, refactoring, performance optimization, and documenting technical decisions for validation of submissions.